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Re: wrong charmap name for BIG5-HKSCS

Ulrich Drepper writes:

> I don't understand your obsession with IANA.

It is the only charset name registry which is alive (maintained) and
publicly visible. Without such a registry, we get back into the old
times where "US-ASCII" is called "ASCII" on one system, "IBM367" on
another, "646" on yet another etc. Then a user must remember that his
preferred locale is "ja_JP.eucJP" on HP-UX, "ja_JP.IBMeucJP" on AIX,
"ja_JP.deckanji" on Tru64 etc. The issue also arises for iconv()
names, e.g. used when a mail program want to display a BIG5-HKSCS mail
in an UTF-8 locale.

> They would add every name one suggests.

So what? One standardized name is better than interoperability problems.

> This registry is everything but useful.

Without this registry, we could never stop adding stupid aliases
because people would always keep asking for more. Have you seen the
alias list of Helena Shih Chapman? (Appended below.) I don't want to
maintain such a big mess. It is best to choose one stsndard and go
with it.

               Bruno
Title:
Encoding Name Aliases
UTF8 utf-8{MIME} ibm-1208 cp1208
UTF16_BigEndian utf-16be{MIME} x-utf-16be
UTF16_LittleEndian utf-16le{MIME} x-utf-16le
UTF16_PlatformEndian ISO-10646-UCS-2{IANA} csUnicode utf-16{MIME} ibm-17584 ibm-13488 ibm-1200 cp1200 ucs-2
UTF32_BigEndian utf-32be
UTF32_LittleEndian utf-32le
UTF32_PlatformEndian ISO-10646-UCS-4{IANA} csUCS4 utf-32{MIME} ucs-4
LATIN_1 iso-8859-1{MIME} ibm-819 cp819 latin1 8859-1 csisolatin1 iso-ir-100 ISO_8859-1:1987{IANA} l1 ANSI_X3.110-1983 819
US-ASCII{MIME} ascii ascii-7 cp367 ANSI_X3.4-1968{IANA} ANSI_X3.4-1986 ISO_646.irv:1991 iso646-us us csASCII 646 iso-ir-6
ISO_2022 2022 cp2022
ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=0 ISO-2022-JP{IANA&MIME} csISO2022JP
ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=1 ISO-2022-JP-1 JIS JIS_Encoding{IANA} csJISEncoding
ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=2 ISO-2022-JP-2{IANA&MIME} csISO2022JP2
ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=3 JIS7
ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=4 JIS8
ISO_2022,locale=ko,version=0 ISO-2022-KR{IANA&MIME} csISO2022KR
ISO_2022,locale=ko,version=1 ibm-25546 ibm-25546_P100 25546
ISO_2022,locale=zh,version=0 ISO-2022-CN{MIME} csISO2022CN
ISO_2022,locale=zh,version=1 ISO-2022-CN-EXT{MIME}
HZ HZ-GB-2312{MIME}
ibm-912 iso-8859-2{MIME} cp912 latin2 8859-2 csisolatin2 iso-ir-101 ISO_8859-2:1987{IANA} l2 912 //Central Europe
ibm-913 iso-8859-3{MIME} latin3 cp913 8859-3 csisolatin3 iso-ir-109 ISO_8859-3:1988{IANA} l3 913 //Maltese  Esperanto
ibm-914 iso-8859-4{MIME} latin4 cp914 8859-4 csisolatin4 iso-ir-110 ISO_8859-4:1988{IANA} l4 914 //Baltic
ibm-915 iso-8859-5{MIME} cyrillic cp915 8859-5 csisolatincyrillic iso-ir-144 ISO_8859-5:1988{IANA} 915 //Cyrillic
ibm-1089 iso-8859-6{MIME} arabic cp1089 8859-6 csisolatinarabic iso-ir-127 ISO_8859-6:1987{IANA} ecma-114 asmo-708 1089 //Arabic
ibm-4909 iso-8859-7{MIME} cp813 greek greek8 elot_928 ecma-118 8859-7 csisolatingreek iso-ir-126 ISO_8859-7:1987{IANA} 813 //ISO Greek(w/euro update)
ibm-916 iso-8859-8{MIME} hebrew cp916 8859-8 csisolatinhebrew iso-ir-138 ISO_8859-8:1988{IANA} 916 //hebrew iso-8859-8i
ibm-920 iso-8859-9{MIME} ECMA-128 latin5 cp920 8859-9 csisolatin5 iso-ir-148 ISO_8859-9:1989{IANA} l5 920 //Turkish
ibm-923 iso-8859-15{MIME} latin9 cp923 8859-15 latin0 csisolatin0 iso8859_15_fdis csisolatin9 923 //Latin 9
iso-8859-14{MIME} latin8 iso-ir-199 ISO_8859-14:1998 iso-celtic l8 //Latin 8
ibm-1252 ibm-1004 cp1004 //Windows Latin 1 without Euro
ibm-943_P130-2000 ibm-943_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-943 //japanese.  Unicode name is \u30b7\u30d5\u30c8\u7b26\u53f7\u5316\u8868\u73fe Iana says that Windows-31J is an extension to csshiftjis ibm-932 removed
ibm-943_P14A-2000 ibm-943_VSUB_VPUA Shift_JIS{MIME} csWindows31J sjis cp943 cp932 ms_kanji csshiftjis windows-31j x-sjis 943
ibm-949_P110-2000 ibm-949_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-949
ibm-949_P11A-2000 ibm-949_VSUB_VPUA KS_C_5601-1987{IANA} iso-ir-149 KS_C_5601-1989 csKSC56011987 KSC_5601{MIME} 949 ksc5601_1992 korean //KSC-5601-1992, korean
KS_X_1001:1992 johab //Johab
ibm-1370 Big5{MIME} csBig5 x-big5 cp950 950 //Taiwan Big-5(w/ euro update)
ibm-1386 gbk cp936 zh_cn //Chinese GBK removed
ibm-33722 EUC-JP{MIME} ibm-eucJP eucjis extended_unix_code_packed_format_for_japanese cseucpkdfmtjapanese X-EUC-JP cp33722 33722 //Japan EUC
ibm-970 EUC-KR{IANA&MIME} ibm-eucKR csEUCKR //Korean EUC
ibm-964 EUC-TW ibm-eucTW cns11643 //Taiwan EUC
ibm-1383 EUC-CN ibm-eucCN GB_2312-80{IANA} chinese gb iso-ir-58 csISO58GB231280 GB2312{MIME} csGB2312 gb2312-1980 cp1383 1383 //China EUC
ibm-1162 tis-620 cp874 windows-874 ms874 cp9066 874 //Thai(w/ euro update)
ibm-874 ibm-1161 //Same as 1162(w/o euro update)
ibm-437 cp437 csPC8CodePage437 437 //PC US
ibm-850 IBM850{IANA} cp850{MIME} 850 csPC850Multilingual //PC latin1
ibm-851 IBM851{IANA} cp851{MIME} 851 csPC851 //PC DOS Greek(w/o euro)
ibm-858 cp858{MIME} IBM00858{IANA} //PC latin1 with Euro cp850 removed
ibm-9044 852 csPCp852 cp852{MIME} //PC latin2(w/ euro update)
ibm-852 IBM852{IANA} //PC latin2 (w/o euro update)
ibm-872 855 csIBM855 cp855{MIME} csPCp855 //PC cyrillic(w/ euro update)
ibm-855 IBM855{IANA} //PC cyrillic(w/o euro update)
ibm-856 cp856{MIME} 856 //PC Hebrew (old)
ibm-9049 857 csIBM857 cp857{MIME} //PC Latin 5 (Turkish)(w/ euro update)
ibm-857 IBM857{IANA} //PC Latin 5(w/o euro update)
ibm-859 cp859{MIME} //PC Latin 9(w/ euro update)
ibm-860 IBM860{IANA} cp860{MIME} 860 csIBM860 //PC Portugal
ibm-861 IBM861{IANA} cp861{MIME} 861 cp-is csIBM861 //PC Iceland
ibm-867 cp867 862 cp862{MIME} cspc862latinhebrew //PC Hebrew(w/ euro update)
ibm-862 IBM862{IANA} //PC Hebrew (w/o euro update)
ibm-863 IBM863{IANA} cp863{MIME} 863 csIBM863 //PC Canadian French
ibm-17248 cp864{MIME} csIBM864 //PC Arabic(w/ euro update)
ibm-864 IBM864{IANA} //PC Arabic (w/o euro update)
ibm-865 IBM865{IANA} cp865{MIME} 865 csIBM865 //PC Nordic
ibm-808 cp866{MIME} 866 csIBM866 //PC Russian(w/ euro update)
ibm-868 IBM868{IANA} cp868{MIME} cp-ar csIBM868 868 //PC Urdu
ibm-9061 cp869{MIME} 869 cp-gr csIBM869 //PC Greek(w/ euro update)
ibm-869 IBM869{IANA} //PC Greek(w/o euro update)
ibm-878 KOI8-R{IANA&MIME} cp878 koi8 cskoi8r //Russian internet
ibm-901 cp921 921 //PC Baltic(w/ euro update)
ibm-902 cp922 922 //PC Estonian(w/ euro update)
ibm-942_P120-2000 ibm-942_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-942 ibm-932 ibm-932_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA //Old s_jis ibm-932 added!
ibm-942_P12A-2000 ibm-942_VSUB_VPUA shift_jis78 sjis78 pck ibm-932_VSUB_VPUA
ibm-5346 windows-1250{IANA} cp1250 //Windows Latin2(w/ euro update)
ibm-5347 windows-1251{IANA} cp1251 //Windows Cyrillic(w/ euro update)
ibm-5348 windows-1252{IANA} cp1252 //Windows Latin1(w/ euro update)
ibm-5349 windows-1253{IANA} cp1253 //Windows Greek(w/ euro update)
ibm-5350 windows-1254{IANA} cp1254 //Windows Turkish(w/ euro update)
ibm-5351 windows-1255{IANA} cp1255 //Windows Hebrew(w/ euro update)
ibm-5352 windows-1256{IANA} cp1256 //Windows Arabic(w/ euro update)
ibm-5353 windows-1257{IANA} cp1257 //Windows Baltic(w/ euro update)
ibm-5354 windows-1258{IANA} cp1258 //Windows Vietnamese(w/ euro update)
ibm-1275 macintosh{IANA} mac csMacintosh //Apple latin 1
ibm-1276 Adobe-Standard-Encoding csAdobeStandardEncoding
ibm-1277 Adobe-Latin1-Encoding
ibm-1280 macgr //Apple Greek
ibm-1281 mactr //Apple Turkish
ibm-1282 macce //Apple Central Europe
ibm-1283 maccy //Apple Cyrillic
ibm-1051 hp-roman8 roman8 r8 csHPRoman8 //HP Latin1
ibm-849 cp1131 //PC Belarus(w/ euro update)
ibm-848 cp1125 //PC Ukraine(w/ euro update)
ibm-5104 cp1008 //8-bit Arabic(w/ euro update)
ibm-9238 cp1046 //PC Arabic Extended(w/ euro update)
ibm-1363_P110-2000 ibm-1363 ibm-1363_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-1362 //Korean KSC Korean Windows MBCS
ibm-1363_P11B-2000 ibm-1363_VSUB_VPUA windows-949 cp949 cp1363 ksc
ibm-5210 cp1114 //PC SBCS Big-5(w/ euro update)
ibm-21427 cp947 //PC DBCS Big-5(w/ euro update)
ibm-37 IBM037{IANA} ibm-037 cpibm37 ebcdic-cp-us ebcdic-cp-ca ebcdic-cp-wt ebcdic-cp-nl csIBM037 cp37 cp037 37 //EBCDIC US
ibm-273 IBM273{IANA} csIBM273 ebcdic-de cp273 cpibm273 273 //EBCDIC "Germanay," Austria...
ibm-277 IBM277{IANA} EBCDIC-CP-DK EBCDIC-CP-NO csIBM277 ebcdic-dk cp277 cpibm277 277 //EBCDIC Denmark...
ibm-278 IBM278{IANA} ebcdic-cp-fi ebcdic-cp-se csIBM278 ebcdic-sv cp278 cpibm278 278 //EBCDIC Sweden
ibm-280 IBM280{IANA} ebcdic-cp-it csIBM280 cp280 cpibm280 280 //EBCDIC Italy
ibm-284 IBM284{IANA} ebcdic-cp-es csIBM284 cp284 cpibm284 284 //EBCDIC Spain
ibm-285 IBM285{IANA} ebcdic-cp-gb csIBM285 ebcdic-gb cp285 cpibm285 285 //EBCDIC UK Ireland
ibm-290 IBM290{IANA} EBCDIC-JP-kana csIBM290 cp290 //host SBCS (Katakana)
ibm-297 IBM297{IANA} ebcdic-cp-fr csIBM297 cp297 cpibm297 297 //EBCDIC France
ibm-420 IBM420{IANA} ebcdic-cp-ar1 csIBM420 cp420 420
ibm-424 IBM424{IANA} ebcdic-cp-he csIBM424 cp424 424
ibm-500 IBM500{IANA} cpibm500 csIBM500 cp500 ebcdic-cp-be ebcdic-cp-ch 500 //EBCDIC International Latin1
ibm-803 cp803 //Old EBCDIC Hebrew
ibm-834 cp834 //Korean DBCS Host
ibm-835 cp835 //DBCS T-Ch Host
ibm-871 IBM871{IANA} ebcdic-cp-is csIBM871 cpibm871 cp871 871 //EBCDIC Iceland
ibm-930 cp930 cpibm930 930 //Japan EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-933 cp933 cpibm933 933 //Korea EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-935 cp935 cpibm935 935 //China EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-937 cp937 cpibm937 937 //Taiwan EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-939 cp939 939 //Host MBCS (Latin-Kanji)
ibm-1006_P100-2000 ibm-1006 ibm-1006_VPUA
ibm-1006_X100-2000 ibm-1006_STD
ibm-1025_P100-2000 ibm-1025 ibm-1025_STD
ibm-1026_P100-2000 ibm-1026 CP1026 IBM1026{IANA} csIBM1026 ibm-1026_STD
ibm-1097_P100-2000 ibm-1097 ibm-1097_VPUA
ibm-1097_X100-2000 ibm-1097_STD
ibm-1098_P100-2000 ibm-1098 ibm-1098_VSUB_VPUA
ibm-1098_X100-2000 ibm-1098_VSUB
ibm-1112_P100-2000 ibm-1112 cp1112 1112 ibm-1112_STD
ibm-1122_P100-2000 ibm-1122 cp1122 ibm-1122 1122 ibm-1122_STD
ibm-1124_P100-2000 ibm-1124 ibm-1124_STD
ibm-1125_P100-2000 ibm-1125 ibm-1125_VSUB
ibm-1129_P100-2000 ibm-1129 ibm-1129_STD
ibm-1130_P100-2000 ibm-1130 ibm-1130_STD
ibm-1131_P100-2000 ibm-1131 ibm-1131_VSUB
ibm-1132_P100-2000 ibm-1132 ibm-1132_STD
ibm-1133_P100-2000 ibm-1133 ibm-1133_STD
ibm-1137_P100-2000 ibm-1137 ibm-1137_STD
ibm-1381_P110-2000 ibm-1381 ibm-1381_VSUB_VPUA
ibm-806_P100-2000 ibm-806 ibm-806_VSUB
ibm-870_P100-2000 ibm-870 CP870 IBM870{IANA} ibm-870_STD ebcdic-cp-roece ebcdic-cp-yu csIBM870
ibm-875_P100-2000 ibm-875 cp875 ibm-875 875 ibm-875_STD
ibm-9030_P100-2000 ibm-9030 ibm-9030_STD
ibm-9066_P100-2000 ibm-9066 ibm-9066_VSUB
ibm-918_P100-2000 ibm-918 CP918 IBM918{IANA} ibm-918_VPUA ebcdic-cp-ar2 csIBM918
ibm-918_X100-2000 ibm-918_STD
ibm-1390 cpibm1390 //Japan EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-1371 cpibm1371 //Taiwan EBCDIC MIXED
ibm-1047 cpibm1047 //EBCDIC Open systems Latin1
ibm-1123 cpibm1123 //Cyrillic Ukraine EBCDIC
ibm-1140 cpibm1140 IBM01140{IANA} //EBCDIC US...
gb18030 ibm-1392
ibm-1141 cpibm1141 IBM01141{IANA} //EBCDIC "Germanay," Austria…
ibm-1142 cpibm1142 IBM01142{IANA} //EBCDIC Denmark...
ibm-1143 cpibm1143 IBM01143{IANA} //EBCDIC Sweden
ibm-1144 cpibm1144 //EBCDIC Italy
ibm-1145 cpibm1145 //EBCDIC Spain
ibm-1146 cpibm1146 //EBCDIC UK Ireland
ibm-1147 cpibm1147 //EBCDIC France
ibm-1148 cpibm1148 //EBCDIC International Latin1
ibm-1149 cpibm1149 ebcdic-is //EBCDIC Iceland
ibm-1153 cpibm1153 //EBCDIC latin2
ibm-1154 cp1025 cpibm1154 //EBCDIC Cyrillic Multilingual
ibm-1155 cpibm1155 //EBCDIC Turkey
ibm-1156 cpibm1156 //EBCDIC Baltic Multilingual
ibm-1157 cpibm1157 //EBCDIC Estonia
ibm-1158 cp1123 cpibm1158 1123 //Cyrillic Ukraine EBCDIC
ibm-1159 cp28709 //SBCS T-Ch Host
ibm-1160 cp9030 cpibm1160 //EBCDIC Thailand
ibm-1164 cp1130 cpibm1164 //EBCDIC VietNam
ibm-1364_P110-2000 ibm-1364_VPUA ibm-1364 cp1364 //Korean Host Mixed
ibm-4899 cpibm4899 //Old EBCDIC Hebrew
ibm-4971 cpibm4971 //EBCDIC Greek
ibm-5123 cp1027 //Host Roman Jis
ibm-12712 cpibm12712 ebcdic-he //EBCDIC Hebrew (new "sheqel," control charaters update)
ibm-16684 cp300 //Jis + Roman Jis Host
ibm-16804 cpibm16804 ebcdic-ar //EBCDIC Arabic
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